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  • Comparing two pandemics: A century apart

    … It highlights similarities and differences in the nature of these pandemics, the responses, and their impacts on … Zealand and globally. It also emphasises the importance of learning from the past to inform current and future … resilient and capable of responding to surges in demand.   What is new in this Briefing? Comparisons between New …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle by the numbers – A review at six months

    … significant damage across northern and eastern regions of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) in February … not occurred, this Briefing summarises ‘by the numbers’ what is known about this disaster after six months. Our … the election cycle and any potential change of government. What’s new in this Briefing Six months on we detail the very …
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  • Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: Five key ways to reduce the massive health and social costs

    … A new study has estimated the surprisingly high level of harm from air pollution. This annual harm includes the premature deaths of more than 3300 adult New Zealanders and more than 13,100 … blog. These range from free public transport to reform of the electricity market to lower costs to citizens. The …
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  • Note to the Havelock North Inquiry – Think Big

    … An Independent Inquiry is now investigating the cause of the water-borne outbreak caused by Campylobacter in … affecting nevertheless hundreds of thousands of people. What is clear from the reports is that it is impossible to … the indicator organism E. coli ) provide only a guide to what might be in the water and may miss the presence of …
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  • Health-related food taxes and subsidies: A critique of opposition arguments

    … produce substantial health gains. However, the proposition of food pricing policies often meets with vigorous opposition and a range of counter-arguments relating to potential harms, lack of … e.g., Hungary and Finland. Implementation of the SSB taxes does not seem to be a large issue. Though, as demonstrated in …
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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … approach to pandemic control, it is helpful to define what is meant by a “border control failure” so that such … health workers, iwi [3], and indeed the whole “Team of 5 million”. The staff in managed isolation and quarantine … we suspect that shared air space is far more likely given what is now known about the likely rarity of transmission via …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … Authority (EPA) chose not to accept the assessment of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) … Authority, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth. Her attempt to justify what happened gives a muddled account of risk assessment, and … these high exposures and dosages in New Zealand” [7]. So, does the EPA truly agree with the IARC assessment, that …
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  • Time to stop dodging bullets? NZ’s eight recent border control failures

    … and argue the case for an urgent review and upgrading of the country’s defences against this highly infectious … by international standards by adopting and pursuing a goal of eliminating community transmission of the pandemic virus that causes COVID-19. 1 It has …
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  • Updating the role of the state: the case of housing in New Zealand

    … issue again. In this blog I reflect on the importance of the role of the New Zealand Government in improving access to affordable housing. I look at what the Government been doing to increase quality public … the very high demand. To complicate matters, Kāinga Ora does not control the waiting list for public housing. This …
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  • Expanding Ka Ora, Ka Ako is ‘bread and butter’ action to alleviate the cost-of-healthy-food crisis

    … Summary A major part of the cost-of-living crisis, which is hitting whānau across Aotearoa New … and more equitable means of income distribution. What is new in this Briefing The most concerning part of the …
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